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Fact Check: Yogi Who Claimed To Survive Without Food & Water For Decades Passed Away in 2020, NOT 2022

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An image of a saint, known as Prahlad Jani is doing rounds on social media with a claim that he recently passed away. The post also mentioned that he was meditating for 80 years without food or water.

A Facebook user shared the post with the text: “ये सन्त प्रहलाद बाबा जो 80 वर्षो से बिना अन्न ~ जल ग्रहण किये बिना ये तपस्या भगवान की भक्ति में लिन थे ये कल इनकी मृत्यु हो गई भगवान इनकी आत्मा को शांती दे शिव ~ शिव यह हमारे सनातन धर्म के सुपरस्टार हैं आज अगर कोई हीरो मर जाता पूरे फेसबुक पर छा जाता हमारे समस्त सत्य सनातन धर्म सबको पता लगे इसलिए सभी से अनुरोध करती हूं कि जिस तरह बॉलीवुड के हीरो मर जाते हैं उनके लिए चिल्ला चिल्ला कर फेसबुक पर तुम जो रोते हो कम से कम अपने सत्य सनातन धर्म को भी देख लिया करो”

(English Translation: This Saint Prahlad Baba, who took this penance in devotion to God without food and water for 80 years. He died yesterday. May God give peace to his soul. Lord Shiva, he is the superstar of our Sanatan Dharma. Today if any hero dies, It would have all over Facebook. Let all from Satya Sanatan Dharma come to know. so I request everyone that the way Bollywood heroes die, the way you cry on Facebook by shouting for them, at least see your true Sanatan Dharma too. take it )

Here’s the link to the above post.

FACT CHECK 

NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the claim to be misleading.

We a ran keyword search and found that as per Google, saint Prahlad Jani passed away on May 26, 2020.

The search led us to multiple reports published in 2020 about his demise. A report by TOI dated May 26, 2020, stated that Prahlad Jani also known among devotees as Chunriwale Mataji passed away at the age of 91 due to illness.

A report by Times Now mentioned that Jani, who claimed to have survived without food or water for more than 70 years, died in his native village Charada in Gujarat.

According to a report by Jagran Josh, he was living in a cave in the rainforest near the Gujarat temple of Ambaji since 1970. The report also mentioned that two observational tests have been conducted on Prahlad Jani, one in 2003 and another in 2010.

In 2003 at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad, India, Dr Sudhir and some physicians observed Prahlad Jani for 10 days. He stayed in a sealed room. In 2010, Dr Sudhir Shah and a team of more than 30 researchers from the Indian Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), as well as other organisations studied his vitals via clinical examinations, blood tests and scans. The surveillance was reportedly followed using CCTV cameras and personal observations.

A report by ABC News dated May 31, 2010, also mentioned that he was kept under observation for 15 days at Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad. “We realized that, if this whole phenomenon really exists in a human being even for 15 days, it would have immense application in unravelling secrets of medical science and its application for human welfare,” a statement from a scientific group, that included the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, said.

The above information proves that even though the claim about him surviving without food or water for more than 70 -80 years is unproven, he passed away back in 2020. Hence, the claim is misleading.

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